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Archived on 11 June 2023 at 2:30am [URL redacted]
@TeddyDeever [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Hobby Lobby has gone #Woke #HobbyLobby #christianlife #GoWokeGoBroke [URL redacted]
#BrandHobbyLobby #BeliefSupernaturalOccultBaphomet
Context "Images of 'satanic' merchandise displayed on shelves at Hobby Lobby were created using artificial intelligence, contrary to claims being shared online that they show items sold by the retailer. ... However, the creator of the images, Jennifer Vinyard, posted them on June 5 in the Facebook group AI Art Universe (here) with the caption, 'I think we need to talk about what is going on at Hobby Lobby... won't somebody please think of the children!?'" [Reuters fact-checked] #HandleFacebookAIArtUniverseJenniferVinyard #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeMidJourney #BeliefTheismDeitySatanLuciferDevilBeelzebubAntichristDajjal #NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeHoax
Addendum the co-founder of craft chain store is #BeliefTheismChristianityDenomEvangelicalism.ist #BrandHobbyLobbyDavidGreen
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Archived on 10 April 2023 at 4:00pm [URL redacted]
@FrancescaHrabe [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : Disney Pixar's latest attempt at wokeness. This movie is about a transgender teen. #woke #disney #liberal #trump #trump2024 #TRUMP2024ToSaveAmerica @MrAndyNgo #youreasnowflake #andadimwit #ifyouthoughtthiswasreal #midjourney [URL redacted]
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Archived on 22 March 2023 at 4:15pm [URL redacted]
@DarleneMindiola [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @EndWokeness This is how desperate the #communists are #woke #liberal #Propaganda #censorship #Democrats So scared of #DonaldJTrump and Big Bad #MAGA Living for #TrumpArrest instead of battle of ideas by #TRUMP2024 I don’t know what’s worse? [URL redacted]
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump
Context #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheHillLaurenSforza "Fabricated images of former President Trump being arrested are circulating social media as the country prepares for his possible indictment this week. The images, created using artificial intelligence software (AI), show what appears to be the a large group of New York City Police Department officers arresting the former president as he resists be detained. Some of the images that were posted on Twitter even depict Trump being forced to the ground, while another image shows him running away from the police officers. The text in the images, like on the police officers' uniform, is garbled -- an indicator that they were fake. Eliot Higgins, founder and creative director of investigative collective Bellingcat, first shared these images Monday on Twitter, and they have gained traction over the last several days. He explained in a tweet that he used MidJourney V5 -- an AI software that creates images from a written prompt -- to form the images. That prompt that he used read 'Donald Trump falling over while getting arrested. Fibonacci Spiral. News footage,' and it produced many of the images that were posted on Twitter." https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3912427-fake-ai-images-of-trump-arrest-hit-internet/ #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeMidJourney https://www.midjourney.com/ #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerativeDeepfake #WebsiteBellingcatEliotHiggins: [tweet] #NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeHoax //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// #NMINWorldIsOneNewsWION https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m4xRso_2Rg&t=23s
Supplementary #NMUKBBCMariannaSpring "The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November. Unlike in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves. One of them was Mark Kaye and his team at a conservative radio show in Florida. They created an image of Mr Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook, where Mr Kaye has more than one million followers. At first it looks real, but on closer inspection everyone's skin is a little too shiny and there are missing fingers on people's hands - some tell-tale signs of AI-created images. 'I'm not a photojournalist,' Mr Kaye tells me from his radio studio. 'I'm not out there taking pictures of what's really happening. I'm a storyteller.'" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68440150 #NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeImpersonation #IdentityAmericanBlackAndAfricanPOC #HandleTwitterTrump_History45 #CampaignHashtagBlackVotersMatterCliffAlbright #WebsiteNewsmaxMarkKaye [fact-checked]
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Archived on 9 August 2022 at 4:45pm [URL redacted]
@IsaiahPek [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [09]: #Woke, #inclusive, ‘open’ #website #Wikipedia is just ‘an #NHS where the #whitecollar #managers enrich themselves while the #nurses #work #freeofcharge.’ #LeftistsHateFacts but like ‘to control truth’. @AndrewOrlowski @TeleComment 8 Aug 22, p 30. [URL redacted]
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheTelegraphAndrewOrlowski [Muckrack] "The Left is using Wikipedia in its fight to control truth Is the United States economy now in a recession? It all depends on how you define a recession. And, in turn, that depends on who gets to write the definition of a recession. When Joe Biden's administration began to quibble with the widely accepted technical definition of the term recently, after two quarters of declining GDP, that was quickly reflected in the world's most popular source of information, Wikipedia. However, the 'encyclopedia that anyone can edit' then decided that anyone couldn't just edit it. The Wikipedia entry for 'recession' was put out of reach. A statement declared the page 'protected to prevent vandalism'. That provoked a rapid response from billionaire culture warrior Elon Musk, who tweeted: 'Wikipedia is losing its objectivity.' In an era when the dictionary definitions of words-such as woman are on the front lines of the battle between Left and Right, we shouldn't be surprised that an open access website reflects those disagreements. But Wikipedia's role goes curiously unscrutinised. The website has become the most powerful media organisation on the planet but the attention we pay to it is in inverse proportion to its influence. No one in history has had the same power to reach billions of people, With its 'facts' sprayed out via Siri and Alexa home speakers and smart televisions a scenario George Orwell envisaged in his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four-it's more influential than ever. The world, in effect, has a single source of knowledge, and that source is Wikipedia. You may think that with such immense power might come some responsibility but that is where things get complicated. Wikipedia is really made up of two separate groups, and neither is keen to step forward when things go wrong. On one side is the informal collective of hard working and unpaid maintainers, which self-organises loosely on a national basis and is no more of an institution than the hacking group QAnon. The other entity is the US-registered fundraising non-governmental organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation, which exists largely to bring in funds which are then spent mostly on itself. Imagine an NHS where the white collar managers enrich themselves while the nurses work free of charge. The foundation employs hundreds of office staff with average salaries higher than comparable tech NGOs and can call on some $400m-plus (£331m) of cash. The foundation can't effectively tell Wikipedia's editors - or 'administrators' in the jargon-what to do. For their part, the Wikipedians resent attempts by the newly minted NGOcrats to boss them about. This is a dysfunctional marriage, held together only by the incredible amounts of money raised each year by guilt-tripping and misleading fundraising drives. Misleading because the costs of the site are a fraction of the nine-figure dollar sums raised by the NGO each year, and it is financially secure for several decades. Wikipedia's co-founder, Larry Sanger, agrees with Musk, and argues that bias is now entrenched in both camps. The site has changed character over recent years, he says. The NGO has been happy to accept cash from 'dark money' groups aligned to the Left and the Democratic Party, such as The Tides Foundation. With the encouragement of Jimmy Wales, another co-founder, it's thrown itself hard on to one side of political campaigns too, going 'dark' to highlight changes to copyright law. Wikipedia led such protests in 2019, even after it had succeeded in carving out an exemption for itself, with statements that European MEPs described as highly misleading. It's a fools' errand to try to prove bias - and I don't think the link between dark money and the site's slant is quite as straightforward as it may appear. But what is perhaps more disquieting is just how much the world has come to consult a single source of truth, one that is both unaccountable and unreliable. In the first study of its kind, five academics decided to test if Wikipedia had an influence on judicial decisions. Law students created more than 150 articles summarising Irish Supreme Court judgments, with half kept offline and half uploaded to Wikipedia. The number of cases on Wikipedia that were cited as precedents in subsequent Irish cases rose 22pc. 'The information and legal analysis offered on Wikipedia led judges to cite A the relevant legal cases more often and to talk about them in ways comparable to how the Wikipedia authors had framed them,' the study found. In other words, judges were reaching for the most easily available precedents, not necessarily the most legally appropriate. Wikipedia has begun to shape the law-and nobody even noticed. 'Because such content is not authoritative, our analysis reveals a policy-gap,' the study concludes. As for reliability, this has not been a year to boast about. Large chunks of Sino-Russian history, added to Chinese Wikipedia over a decade and replicated in the Russian and Arabic versions, disappeared overnight last month. Totalling over a million words, these historical entries appeared to be detailed and exhaustive, but were the invention of one bored Chinese housewife, who was dubbed the 'Chinese Borges', after the Argentinian Nobel Prize winning writer who created elaborate fantasy worlds. Inventing facts became the vocation for the user known as Zhemao, because she was bored: 'My husband has been away for a long time, I am empty and lonely,' she finally confessed. In another world, some of the staggering fortune that the powerful tin-rattling NGO has amassed would be diverted to fact-checking, removing bias, or even ensuring editors are paid and accountable. But power without responsibility is the NGO credo. When that power means information dominance, we should all be worried." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/08/wikipedia-has-become-tool-left-battle-control-truth/ #LiteralFieldEconomicsRecession #PhenomnEconomyGrossDomesticProductGDP #PleaVandalism #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #MetaphorVersusRightWingLeftWing #BrandAppleSiri #BrandAmazonAlexa #IRLAuthorGeorgeOrwell #1949_NineteenEightyFour1984 #ConspiracyTheory_CabalQAnon #OrgSyndicateAccordOrganisationNGO #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationLarrySanger #OrgUSTidesFoundation [Wikipedia] #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationJimmyWales #LiteralIntellectualPropertyRightsIPRCopyrightFairUse #OrgEU #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute #OrgIESupremeCourt #PhenomnInternationalRelationsSinoRussian [Wikipedia] #ToponymRussia #ToponymAsiaChina #IdentityArab #NarrativeTruthFabricationZhemaoHoaxes [Wikipedia] #IRLHoaxerZhemaoAKAChineseBorges #NarrativeTruthVerisimilitudeHoax #1942_CelestialEmporiumOfBenevolentKnowledge [Wikipedia] #IRLWriterJorgeLuisBorges [Wikipedia] #PhenomnDeprivationBeggarPanhandler
Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesTiffanyHsu [Muckrack] "In a world where trust in truth is crumbling, the grande dame of collective online fact-gathering is under threat on every front. The MAGA right, with Elon Musk at the fore, is slinging accusations of political bias and antisemitism and has even questioned the site's nonprofit status. Artificial intelligence is raiding the encyclopedia's resources and draining attention. Repressive governments have hauled its volunteer editors into penal colonies. ... The organization that supports the site, the Wikimedia Foundation, is increasing its lobbying budget and advertising in Times Square. It is charging companies like Google and Meta that gobble up the encyclopedia's 65 million articles, and throttling access for certain scrapers. And it is expanding its human rights team to better protect volunteers against rising harassment, surveillance and retaliation." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/media/wikipedia-ai-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wVA.VcTW.-OPHLbNLWLzK #2026_ #PleaMAGA #ReasoningFallacyBiasPartisanship #OtheringHateAntisemitism #OrgSyndicateAccordOrganisationNonProfitNPO #TechArtificialIntelligenceAIGenerative #OrgUSWikimediaFoundation #OrgUSWikimediaFoundationBernadetteMeehan [Wikipedia] #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNewYorkNYCManhattanTimesSquare [Wikipedia] #BrandTechGoogle #BrandTechMeta #PhenomnWebScraper [Wikipedia]
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Archived on 6 January 2022 at 3:15pm [URL redacted]
@LadariusBrider [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : You need to understand where all of this is coming from! #nft #woke #feminism #racism #NFT #BlackLivesMatter #Americans #sheep #Infographic [URL redacted]
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Archived on 12 July 2020 at 7:00am [URL redacted]
@JaysonColetti [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : With the recent #woke fam exposing human trafficking and the elite-it’s here well and alive or shall I say dead 💀 #wayfairchildtrafficking #wayfairgate #Epstein #adrenochome #SatanicElite #Hollywood #pizzagate #wayfair [URL redacted]
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